Bingham Castle, Belmullet, Co Mayo – ruin 

Mark Bence-Jones. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London.

p. 41. “(Bingham/LGI1912; and sub Clanmorris, B/PB) A symmetrical castle of early C19 appearance consisting of two large three storey towers with machiolated galleries joined by a two story three bay centre. Turreted central feature and porch, tracery windows. Screen wall at one side of front which appears to have been originally a single storey wing. Bingham Castle is now in ruins.”

Listed in Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin and Nicholas K. Robinson, published by The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1988. 

p. 110. “A large symmetrical early 19C castle. Seat of the Bingham family. Now a ruin.”